“The mind lies using words. The heart has no words with which to lie. It conveys only truth.”

“When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?”

“The reason I want to remember this is because I know we'll never be able to do it again.”

“The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.”

“You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor.”

“For a long time I thought the object of the game was identifying the question, love versus freedom, Mandela vs Buthelezi, leave or stay forever ghosted under a thick curtain of oil. Nora said, Maybe a choice isn't the right way to think of it, by which she might have meant, A question loses its power when there is only one answer, as in, yes to Bhutan and Barstow. Yes to chanterelles and portobellos. A temple. Yes. A mosque. Yes. The changeable heart of a child.”

“Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts”